Vista Sucks.... a Notebook Battery Down

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From: Ork . [mailto:Geo_H@webtv.net]
Posted At: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:13 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: Vista Sucks.... a Notebook Battery Down
Subject: Re: Vista Sucks.... a Notebook Battery Down

I have not found anything on Vista any better than W-Xp.

Several thngs are worse..
Speed

>>> I see no speed difference

Xp Power Toys gone.

>>> What are you trying to do? I've found many functions are
incorporated into vista

Inferior Photo editing programs.

>>>> Uh, which program included with xp was better?

Avast and AVG iffy..

AVG is rock solid. Haven't tried Avast, but haven't heard any
complaints.

All day required for installation.

>>> About 55 minutes, including two installs so I could do a clean
install with an upgrade disk. All day? How could that even be
possible?


I'll check out the battery situation and report back..

>>> Haven't put it on a laptop yet. Good idea. I'll try that next.

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ork . [mailto:Geo_H@webtv.net]
> Posted At: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:13 PM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: Vista Sucks.... a Notebook Battery Down
> Subject: Re: Vista Sucks.... a Notebook Battery Down
>
> I have not found anything on Vista any better than W-Xp.
>
> Several thngs are worse..
> Speed
>
>>>> I see no speed difference
>
> Xp Power Toys gone.
>
>>>> What are you trying to do? I've found many functions are
> incorporated into vista
>
> Inferior Photo editing programs.
>
>>>>> Uh, which program included with xp was better?
>
> Avast and AVG iffy..
>
> AVG is rock solid. Haven't tried Avast, but haven't heard any
> complaints.
>
> All day required for installation.
>
>>>> About 55 minutes, including two installs so I could do a clean
> install with an upgrade disk. All day? How could that even be
> possible?
>
>
> I'll check out the battery situation and report back..
>
>>>> Haven't put it on a laptop yet. Good idea. I'll try that next.
>

I've found power management options in the GUI to be an adventure.

Set incorrectly, I was able to place my desktop into a coma when attempting
to simply set monitor sleep.

Power off and power up.

Until I tried different (convoluted) settings. I find it hard to believe
that the Intel 875 chipset with a Radeon 9700 Pro isn't mainstream hardware
for the new OS.

Stew